Every summer for one week I go and stay with my
gran who lives in Clevedon. When I stay we go out every day, this varies from bus rides around Bath to shopping in Bristol. With each day being different I get to learn different things about the area that my grans lives in and where my mum was raised, this also gives me a chance to use my camera. This year I travelled down to Bristol to meet my gran on a train in first class. Not only did I have a comfy seat for the 2 hour journey which actual feels like quarter of an hour but I also had a complimentary free drink just to make my ride that more enjoyable.
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| White Flags |
On the first day gran and I decided to visit Weston-super-Mare. Seeing that the both of us can't drive we took the 125 bus from Clevedon to the seafront of Weston. During the journey we happen to go past a couple of places that I used to go when I was little such as Cadbury Garden Centre, my grandparents and parents used to look around especially at christmas time when I went to visit Santa. We use to spend half a day there as the adults were avid gardeners whilst I was bribed by the chance of looking at the animals in the pet section and a bag of sweets at the end.
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| Octopus |
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| Mermaid |
When we finally arrived at the seafront we decided to
go to the see some sand sculptures on the beach that my gran had heard about however we got there we were a bit early, so we deiced to go for a wonder along the Marine Parade, this is when we
saw kites in the sky. At first we thought the kites were to do with the Aquarium as they were next to the building and there were sea animals shaped kites. When we looked closer we found out that it was a two-day kite festival where they
displayed different unusual kites and had kite displays. My favourite kite was the octopus as I loved
colours used and how it was grand in size, whilst my gran preferred the mermaid
as the way it moved in the sky mirrored how it would move in the sea. We were
lucky as that day even though it was very sunny it still was a bit windy
perfect for the kites.
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| Happy! |
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| Bright Kites |
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| Hollywood Sign |
After spending some time looking at the kites we went to see
the Weston Sand Sculpture Festival. This year the sand sculpture theme was
Hollywood, this featured sculptures of paparazzi, the Oscars, film characters and the
famous Hollywood sign. Now I must admit I wasn’t expecting much as it was in a
small area that was cut off from view to the general public. However as soon as
we paid our entry both gran and I were amazed at the height and detail of all
of the sculptures. There was not one where we had to guess what movie a certain
sculpture was from. By each sculpture there was information about the
sculpture, the artist and what they did whilst at Weston.
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| Davy Jones |
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| Hitchcock |
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| Batman and the Hulk |
After the sculpture we went for a walk along the Royal Parade until we go to Dr Fox’s Tearoom where we both had a hot chocolate. My gran was raving over the hot chocolate and wanted me to try one, now I am a bit of a hot chocolate expert but this was the first time I tried one with the chocolate on a stick and melting it in the hot frothy milk. This is one of the best hot chocolates I have ever tried and must say I will be back again. After this we went down by the marina then took a slow walk back to the bus station.
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| Pier |
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| Sponsors Names |
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| Waverley |
I was exhausted by the time we got home, however I soon got excited when the Waverley sailed past close to my grans flat. It was a real treat to hear the paddles go round powering the steam boat. After the boat had gone the sun began to set and I managed to get some photos however I don’t feel my camera did the colours of the sky justice.
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| Sunset |
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| Waverley silhouette |
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| Sunset over Wales |
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